Key Sponsorship:.

Key to Sponsor the PGA TOUR's Nissan Open

Key Information Systems has become a new sponsor of the 2006 Nissan Open presented by Countrywide. The famous PGA TOUR event will be held at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, CA, on Thursday, February 16, through Sunday, February 19. Conceived and managed by the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce (LAJCC), the tournament benefits local charities in the community, generating more than $50 million in charitable funding since its inception 80 years ago in 1926.

Key will be sponsoring the 17th Green Panorama Suite, offering a unique view of the Par 5, 576 yard, 17th hole, where birdie action is expected as the leaders deal with the stress of the final holes.
Key's co-sponsors for the Panorama Suite are AVNET, Brocade, IBM, Microsoft and Q4bis.

Key's own fundraising activity at the event is targeted for the Urban Youth Golf Program, one of the many community service programs supported by the LAJCC.

If you are a client of Key Information Systems, please contact your Key account representative to learn how you can be a part of this worthy event, or contact Kendrell Craven at 818.737.2808.

Key's Direction for 2006:.

What's Ahead

We interviewed execs and employees at Key to see what is in store for 2006, and found Pete Elliot, Director of Marketing, willing to talk about what's ahead in terms of technology focus at Key.

"We have a technology study at Key every year that helps us to determine our direction for the coming year," reports Elliot. "This year, we identified seven new technologies that we feel are important for our clients to understand; we will be planning Key Webinars and other education events focused on these technologies."

The new technologies are:

• New IBM Cell Technology
• Blade Server technology and Server Consolidation
  
• Storage Management: Tivoli
  
• High Availability
  
• VMware: Virtualization
  
• Fault Tolerance: Windows
  
• Dynamic Business Output - Servicing the Demands of the Online Dynamic Marketplace with Scriptura

Of these new technologies, IBM's new Cell technology announced on February 8, will particularly have far-reaching effects. IBM co-developed the new Cell-chip technology with Toshiba and Sony for gaming consoles, including Sony's new PlayStation 3, scheduled for release later this year. IBM is now installing the new Cell processors in its BladeCenter computers. IBM has noted that the highly graphics-intensive engine in the Cell chip can render whole cities and landscapes on the fly. Using the new Cell chips in IBM's new BladeCenter H blades enables moving 10 times the data across networks compared to existing systems.

"Staying on top of emerging technologies so we can help our clients to leverage their benefits is one of our most important functions at Key," Lief Morin, Key's President, said. The result of this effort to remain at the cutting edge of technology is packaged into Key's Webinars that can be efficiently attended online by both Key's clients and the IT community at large.

Allen Shahdadi, Director of Sales at Key, added, "The quality of our account execs and technical specialists extends the learning of our Key Webinars right into the workspace at the time and location most convenient to our clients."

Key continually monitors the interests and technology requirements of its clients. Interests and needs for any technology not mentioned above should be communicated to your Key account exec or to Allen Shahdadi at ashahdadi@keyinfo.com.

Key at Xplor:.

Key and ID at Document Generation Conference

Key experts on document design joined specialists from Inventive Designers to at the Global Document Exchange Xplor Conference at the Miami Beach Conference Center from February 1 to 5. Key and ID members demonstrated the capabilities of Scriptura Suite at the conference demonstration center. Attendees to the conference saw what Key and ID professionals are doing with this amazing tool for creating forms and documents and reports quickly and easily.

Pete Elliot, Key's Director of Marketing, spoke on Dynamic Documentation Standards and the Marketplace. His presentation is available from Key as a PDF. To request a copy, send an email to Pete Elliot at pelliot@keyinfo.com.

Klaas Baals, Chief Technology Officer at Inventive Designers, presented material on how a large bank, Suncorp, integrated Scriptura XBOS into their administrative systems. Also, a representative of Suncorp delivered a presentation on how Suncorp leveraged Inventive Designers' Scriptura Suite to centralize and automate their complete business output, estimated at over 100 million documents a year.
For copies of either the ID or the Suncorp presentation, send an email to Ken Akren at Ken_Akren@inventivedesigners.com.

Xplor International, the worldwide electronic document systems association, combined their annual conference with Graphics of the Americas.

For more about the Xplor organization, go here.

Reader Feedback:.

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Publisher:.

Key Information Systems, Inc., a Premier Business Partner with IBM for five years, is headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA. Founded in 1995, the company provides system integration services, corporate infrastructure architecture for business continuity, storage, and e-business solutions. The company is a leading provider of IBM eServer solutions for the i5/iSeries, p5/pSeries, xSeries and OpenPower servers, and supports the i5OS, OS400, AIX, Unix, NT, and Linux operating system platforms. IBM storage products supported include IBM TotalStorage DS8100 SAN, DR 550, NAS, FAStT, BladeCenter, LTO tape solutions, Tivoli, plus TSRM for storage virtualization and management. High Availability and Fault Tolerant solutions are backed up with a complete range of professional services including education, critical assessments, installation, maintenance, and financing. All these computer resources are available at Key's Business Partner Innovation Center at 22120 Clarendon Street, Suite 100, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA. For more information, visit the company online, or call 1.877.442.3249, or email info@keyinfo.com.

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